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Strategy : a history / Lawrence Freedman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Freedman, Lawrence.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Strategy--History.
- Strategy.
- Military history.
- Strategic culture.
- Strategic planning.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (768 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2013]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In Strategy: A History, Sir Lawrence Freedman, one of the world's leading authorities on war and international politics, captures the vast history of strategic thinking, in a consistently engaging and insightful account of how strategy came to pervade every aspect of our lives. The range of Freedman's narrative is extraordinary, moving from the surprisingly advanced strategy practiced in primate groups, to the opposing strategies of Achilles and Odysseus in The Iliad, the strategic advice of Sun Tzu and Machiavelli, the great military innovations of Baron Henri de Jomini and Carl von Clausewit
- Contents:
- Part I: Origins
- Origins 1: Evolution
- Origins 2: The Bible
- Origins 3: The Greeks
- Sun Tzu and Machiavelli
- Satan's strategy
- Part II: Strategies of force
- The new science of strategy
- Clausewitz
- The false science
- Annihilation or exhaustion
- Brain and brawn
- The indirect approach
- Nuclear games
- The rationality of irrationality
- Guerrilla warfare
- Observation and orientation
- The revolution in military affairs
- The myth of the master strategist
- Part III: Strategy from below
- Marx and a strategy for the working class
- Herzen and Bakunin
- Revisionists and vanguards
- Bureaucrats, democrats, and elites
- Formulas, myths, and propaganda
- The power of nonviolence
- Existential strategy
- Black power and white anger
- Frames, paradigms, discourses, and narratives
- Race, religion, and elections
- Part IV: Strategy from above
- The rise of the management class
- The business of business
- Management strategy
- Business as war
- The rise of economics
- Red queens and blue oceans
- The sociological challenge
- Deliberate or emergent
- Part V: Theories of strategy
- The limits of rational choice
- Beyond rational choice
- Stories and scripts.
- part I. Origins
- part II. Strategies of force
- part III. Strategy from below
- part IV. Strategy from above
- part V. Theories of strategy.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-934991-6
- 0-19-022923-3
- 0-19-934990-8
- OCLC:
- 858282187
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